Eutropius

Eutropius (353-399) was Consul of the Roman Empire in 399 AD and one of the influential ministers who dominated the Eastern Roman emperor Arcadius during the late 4th century.

Biography
Eutropius was born in Assyria in 353 AD to a family of Romans, and he worked as a catamite, pimp, and body-servant to various Roman soldiers and nobles before becoming a domestic eunuch at the imperial palace. After the death of Theodosius I, he was one of the forces behind the downfall of Rufinus and the marriage of the new emperor Arcadius to Aelia Eudoxia. He became Arcadius' closest advisor and the power behind the throne, and he defeated a Hun invasion in 398 and became consul in 399. That same year, Empress Eudoxia and the magister militum Gainas engineered his downfall, and, while John Chrysostom's pleas kept him alive for a short time, he was executed before the year's end.